Incident response

Drawing on lessons from the 2023 Underfall Yard fire, Historic England explores why emergency planning, heritage crime prevention and clear salvage priorities are essential to protecting historic sites when every minute counts.

NEC Software Solutions has brought its Vision 5 command and control system together with Unblur’s IRIS Core and IRIS Tactics platform to deliver a fully integrated, end‑to‑end incident management capability for emergency services across the UK.

Following the Potters Bar bus depot fire in 2022, Transport for London shares its work with the London Fire Brigade to improve the information available at bus incidents. As the capital’s bus fleet becomes increasingly zero emission, this work aimed to assist the emergency services with all of the bus propulsion systems they may encounter.

A new CCTV camera has been installed on a disused MOD watchtower along Sandy Bay on the Exmouth coast to boost public safety in the area.

Increasing numbers of attacks of firefighters are a concern for both fire and rescue services and communities alike; this is driving a new study to find ways to understand what causes this negative interaction.